Saint Cardinal John Henry Newman

  John Henry Newman, in his ‘Fragment of a Life of St Philip’, has left us an unexpected (and often overlooked) hermeneutic key to unlock the nature of holiness in both canonized saints and those in the making – including with our benefit and hindsight – himself. …a saint’s life may often have in it […]

From the disciples' experience of Pentecost we can learn to "profit by what every day and hour teaches us, as it flies."

The flame of love that Christians possess comes from the Holy Spirit who was sent into the world after the Ascension of our Lord.

From an early age, Newman recognized the glory of God in Creation…

We all know how to fast. Here's some advice on feasting.

According to Newman, Love ... is the seed of holiness, and grows into all excellences, not indeed destroying their peculiarities, but making them what they are.

St. John Henry Newman taught that faith is an act of reason enlightened by grace, and invited people to pray for those who do not believe in Christ.

No bad news can ruin us more than the Good News can save us.

St John Henry Newman describes our loved ones as “additional friends in Heaven” whose help we receive because the risen Christ brings them to wherever we are.

Lent offers us an opportunity to grow in the desire to become more like Christ.

For Newman, prayer is conversation with God, but it is a divine conversation which prepares us for heaven.

We must have an active faith that can see through – not over, or around or in spite of our difficulties – to our final home.

In the poem Sleeplessness, John Henry Newman writes about trusting in God, and putting aside our pride and self reliance.

Christmas comes with sorrows and joys, but especially with great joy from the birth of Our Savior.

Knowing the difference between forgiveness and pardon will give us even greater resolve to change and atone for past sins.

In this time of Advent, we should be watchmen of the kind who gaze toward heaven, waiting for Our Lord.

St. John Henry reflects on the uniqueness of the soul of each human created by God, and on doctrine of judgment after death.

The hope of heaven is in looking.

John Henry Newman reminds us that God gives us angels not only to protect us from evil but to guide us to heaven.

John Henry Newman warns against the danger of self-righteousness, and its converse: shunning religious practices that might lead to self-conceit.

God requires much from us; don't shrink back, but go on with the courage of one who knows "If God be for me, who can be against me?"